From owner-freebsd-security Tue Oct 14 09:39:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA29027 for security-outgoing; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 09:39:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security) Received: from silver.sms.fi (silver.sms.fi [194.111.122.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA29019 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 09:38:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pete@silver.sms.fi) Received: (from pete@localhost) by silver.sms.fi (8.8.7/8.7.3) id TAA22353; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 19:38:36 +0300 (EEST) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 19:38:36 +0300 (EEST) Message-Id: <199710141638.TAA22353@silver.sms.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Petri Helenius To: Garrett Wollman Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPv6 sources w/out export restriction In-Reply-To: <199710141559.LAA13260@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <19970924075951.46946@keltia.freenix.fr> <199710141354.QAA21928@silver.sms.fi> <199710141532.LAA13155@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <199710141554.SAA22187@silver.sms.fi> <199710141559.LAA13260@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.22 under 19.15p7 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Garrett Wollman writes: > There's the DARTNET one based on the NRL code (which is radically > restructured every week or so I'm told, making it difficult to keep a > stable code base). There's the one from WIDE in Japan. I've talked > with people who know of others, but I can't be more specific. > > IPv6 right now is a research vehicle. It will not be production > technology for some years. It would be very, very premature to > incorporate any one implementation into our source tree at this time. > I've always thought that in addition of being a wonderful production platform the *BSD platforms are also research vechiles but it seems that the code is missing some modularity Linux has since they have a "beta V6 addon" which fits onto various releases of the OS. Pete